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Posted on 11-10-08 03:17:01 PM Link | Quote
Soon to be a thing of the past in California...at the very least...

All I can say is 'fuck you'. There needn't be a regulation on something like this.

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Posted on 11-10-08 09:47:51 PM Link | Quote

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In California, sports drinks, which can contain almost as much sugar as soda, are still allowed in middle and high schools, but sodas, including diet sodas, will be banned from all schools next year.


.backwards asS; this is the intellegence that this quote brings. It makes me sqirm. I understand that regulations on food consumption is important, and that obesity is a very large problem, but why are they allowing drinks with more sugar in them over the less? Do they think that the "power" in these drinks comes from 0 sugar?

Allot of rationality, and research, needs to be inserted into these kinds of laws. Maybe it's the caffeen or something.


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Posted on 11-10-08 09:51:33 PM Link | Quote
We need to stop electing pinheads into office.

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Posted on 11-10-08 11:47:57 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Viarra
We need to stop electing pinheads into office.


Tell that to the almighty dollar.

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Posted on 11-10-08 11:49:22 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by CarCat
Originally posted by The article
In California, sports drinks, which can contain almost as much sugar as soda, are still allowed in middle and high schools, but sodas, including diet sodas, will be banned from all schools next year.


.backwards asS; this is the intellegence that this quote brings. It makes me sqirm. I understand that regulations on food consumption is important, and that obesity is a very large problem, but why are they allowing drinks with more sugar in them over the less? Do they think that the "power" in these drinks comes from 0 sugar?

Orange juice has tons of sugar.

THEY SHOULD BAN IT TOO

The point isn't just the sugar. It's the fact that soda has no nutritional value whatsoever outside of sugar, caffeine, and sodium. I'm sure you've heard the phrase "empty calories" before. Sports drinks are at least not composed almost entirely of "high fructose corn syrup".
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Posted on 11-11-08 12:22:25 AM Link | Quote
In Chula Vista, Calif., near San Diego, sales plummeted at Hilltop High School’s multicultural food fair, an annual fund-raising event for the foreign language and global studies departments that has traditionally featured bratwurst, breadsticks with marinara sauce, apple pie and root beer floats. “This year was really hard,” said Jade Wagner, a senior, referring to the half-bratwursts and nondairy diet root beers.
Too bad it's not just soda. Practically EVERYTHING that isn't rabbit food is banned.

I can understand applying the rules to breakfast and lunch, and anything that comes out of a vending machine or the school store, but to apply it to every food item that passes through the doors is stepping way over the line. Schools NEED the money from things like bake sales and food fairs more than ever, since they can't count on government funding anymore (and besides, the occasional indulgence isn't going to magically turn everyone into walking cholesterol bombs). This is going to do far more harm than good in the long run, at a time when our schools are already circling the drain.

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Posted on 11-11-08 12:35:55 AM Link | Quote
As long as the amount of effort and money required to consume junk food is lower than that of "healthy" food, these problems will not go away.

With most parents either split or both working, leaving neither time to do much other than go home and rest or get something to eat at a fast food joint, the problem won't be solved.

Magically banning everything bad doesn't solve the problem, and as somebody already said, you can easily profit off of this by, say, opening a quick and easy place to get the goodies they try to ban right by the school, profitting off of what would have gone to it instead.

In short, yeah, fuck that bullshit.

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